The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-02
MIR. and Mrs. BOwser.
Detroit Free Press.

Got a heaQacne.
That's always the way of itl wish
I could remember one well day which
has passed over your head since we were
married.
'I'm always WELL
'Oh, you are Well, I must be blind
not to have discovered the fact. |
wanted you to 60 to the theatre to night.
IL guess / can co.
well, 1 guess you can't! Mrs. Bow
ser, it does seem queer that whenever l
have any special entertainment mapped
out you invariably bust it with a head
ache, palpitation of the heart, torpid
liver or some other ailment. 1t must
be the grossest carelessness on your part.
Have you had doctor to-day?
'Why, no.
well, we'll have one. I'm going to
know what ails you, if have to call
half the doctors in town! I want to
know whether I've married woman or
bundle of drugs
you may be ill some day, Mr.. Bow
SER
'Bosh I've got the strength of mind
to throw off even case of smallpox.
The Bowser family never made fools of
themselves by being upset at every
change of the weather.
The doctor came up and prescribed
a Dover's powder, and thought needed
a tonic ofsome kind. Bowser was grouty
all the evening, and when we went to
bed he shifted and snufed and muttered:
ooh, excuse me thought for mo-
ment that was in Harper's Hospital.
Two morning after this Bowser woke
me up an hour earlier than usual. His
face was very pale and his teeth chat
tered, and l saw at once that he had a
chill. He had been looking yellow
around the eyes for three or four days,
and it was evident that his liver was out
of order.
'What is it?' I asked.
Il believe I'm going to have a
c-c-chill.
ooh, pshaw! Just exercise your will
power and throw it off,
sMrs. Bowser, 1 want you to telephone
for a doctor-two-three doctors with
out delay! I'm an awfully sick man,
without one chance in twenty of getting
WE'LL
| Pooh! Mr.. Bowser, had all ar
rangements made to 60 over to the to-
boggan slide to-day, and to have pro-
gressive euchre party here to night. 1t
seems funny that you should fall sick
and spoil all my pleasure !
sAll right-go ahead and abuse me
all you want to! When I'm under the
cod un,,'ll think of these things
v,gahsa5t dhe family doctor came .e Up attsal aHa
some other simple remedy, and ad
vised Bowser to lie in bed during the
day. The following was the programme
of the forenoon:
I. l soak Mr.. Bowser's feet.
2. prepare him three different kinds
of Cruel.
8. send the baby over to mothers,
because it's cooling disturbs him.
4. I stop all the clocks in the house
at his request.
s. Idrive all the boys out ofthe neigh
borhood to soothe Mr.. Bowser's nerves.
6. 1 shut the dog in the barn and
drive the cat to the attic.
7. make list of his debtors and
creditors, and lock up the insurance
papers.
At noon Mr.. Bowser resolved to get
out of bed, and the amount of dinner
he ate was positively astonishing. After
dinner he put on his slippers and dress
ing gown and asked:
MRS. Bowser, do you think cigar
would hurt me2'
| 'Pooh = said 1.
There you go! You don't seem to
understand that have been dangerous
| ly i'll, and that relapse would cause my
death. Mrs. Bowser, believe you Sc
cretly wished during the forenoon that
might die
| Nonsense
well, your conduct is very suspicious
to say the least. In case of my death
believe you'd marry again.
| Il might.
| you would, eh? That's the kind of
a person you are, is it?'
But, Mr.. Bowser, you've been sick SO
much, you know, and you've turned the
house into hospital so often
who's sick?'
'You are. I'd just like to remember
the time when you had a well day.
Mr.. Bowser it's an awful thing to chain
a woman to an invalid husband
Then Bowser began to cry, and had
to tuck him up in bed and put hot
hatiron to his feet, and tie rag around
his head, and make some sage tea. He
was all right the next morning, and
when l asked him if it would be safe
for me to invite company for Friday
night he roared out:
Safe Why not7'
'You may be i'll, you know!
'And l may not, you know ! Mrs.
Bowser, want you to understand that
the Bowser family-the line lam de-
scended from-never give up until the
very last
But they recover wonderfully quick.
They do, eh2 And that's because
of their strong will-power. Mrs. Bow
ser, I'm satisfied that I was snatched
from the grave yesterday, and that by no
help of yours. If do not return home
for the next three days, you have only
yourself to blame
But he was back at noon, and he hain't
had another word to say about my head
aches.
p@rWhat piece of work is man
How noble in reason how infinite in
faculties; in form and moving, how ex-
pressive and admirable In action,
how like an angel; in apprehension,
how like god /; the beauty of the world
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